Get up at 8:00am on a Saturday morning of a long weekend and drive around the suburbs looking for campers, minivans, station-wagons being loaded with family and luggage.
Or just hit up the beachhouses and cottages in the off-season and steal their liquor and BBQs.
You may be used to crappy games on the PC, but I've never had anything from Nintendo crash on me.
Two reasons:
The hardware platform is always the same: every layer of hardware/OS/sub-system abstraction needed on the PC to ensure that Bob's Alienware box works equally as well as Billy's homebrew machine adds code and complexity and complexity == bugs.
Can't patch a console game: Console manufacturers realise that issuing patches for console games is just not possible/feasible so these games are more than likely in the Q/A cycle for longer periods of time than a PC game, which can be patched frequently.
It's entirely possible that the Internet will mean the end of $200M productions...
Maybe this is a good thing? I've always wondered how much of that $200M big budget blockbuster was actually spent on essential film components (equipment, filming, effects, etc.) or lavish dressing rooms, pre-parties, post-parties, limos, etc. Perhaps having a tighter budget will mean more creativity in the industry.
Any closed source developer using GPL code needs a swift kick the face.
Which is exactly what some executive at BigProprietaryCompany, Inc. is afraid of. Most companies are lucky if they have an individual who's comfortable with Linux, let alone a "champion" who's willing to go to bat and bust the FUD in the boardroom.
where the two dudes in the Oreo jumpsuits are locked in an eternal struggle -- why is it that security vs. hackers struggle should be any different? Do security innovators really think that they're going to invent the "unbreakable" technology?
How about every major game release and the majority of SOHO/SMB business applications written in last fifteen years?
Microsoft Office. No, Open Office doesn't cut it -- every law office I support has applications (see "mission critical business applications") that require Word; every small business with copy of Office has some sort of Excel or Access database who's macros or forms are "irreplacable" and do not work with an alternative.
Internet Explorer, for all of those portals that use ActiveX components.
Photoshop. GIMP? err... no.
I'm sure there are thousands of mothers and grandmothers happily plinking away in Thunderbird on Kubuntu, SUSE, whatever right now, but that's just not the case for people who have no alternative, and cannot switch which is exactly my original point and is precisely the foundation of Microsoft's business strategy.
The problem with Windows is that its users do not abandon it if they find something better.
You mean, cannot abandon it, because loyalty remains with the applications -- you know, the things that actually do something -- not the operating system.
The applications that matter do not run in Linux. Period.
It's Debian... they found an old DAT tape from three years ago, restored it, and realised that nothing's changed in the source tree. *ducks*
sometimes configuration isn't a bad thing...
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My only problem with the "convention or configuration" mantra is the lack of transparency: unless you *know* that RoR does all this automagic pluralization and convention "guesswork" you're destined to bang your head off the corner of the desk trying to figure out how it works. I'm thinking in 2-3 years time and somebody needs to maintain a RoR app who might be familiar with language xyz and abc, but not Ruby. Good luck trying to step through the code and figuring out how it works without investing some serious time in understanding the language and framework intimately.
No, I'm not advocating reems of XML config files ala J2EE frameworks, but I see nothing wrong with a simple conf file for most projects.
Once again, Microsoft leaves the heavy lifting to others. What a crock.
What exactly is Microsoft supposed to do, reverse-engineer everyone's applications for them so it will run under Vista? I'm no Windows programmer, but clearly the partners are going to have to make changes if their software is incompatible with Vista.
You're absolutely right. It's extremely if not impossible to compare something as complex and configurable as a "portal" (which is just as complicated to define, mind you) in a generic "performance analysis". A better comparison would've been a case study whereas objectives for the portal were defined ("we wanted to make an HR portal for a company of 200 employees...") and measured, including some "scientific" and anecdotal performance statistics ("It took Nancy on average 6 minutes to upload and describe each new HR form...").
Sure, it wouldn't be perfect, but at least it would put the testing into context, and give us some metrics that people can actually use, even if only to contribute to the decision-making process.
This is nonsense. Pissing off consumers is not the answer: they should be looking at determining how many ads were *not* fast-forwarded and only paying the content/service providers for those spots, much like how click-thrus and page impressions work on teh Interweb.
I think if a developer is working on ACID test conformity they are pretty close. Microsoft isnt even close to that point of worrying about that yet and looks like they wont ever be.
I think if a developer is working on ACID, test conformity they are pretty... man...
One of the merits of PHP (and most scripting/dynamic languages for that matter) is it's transparency: it's easier to spot bad design or sloppy code because all of the code actually does something in relation to the given problem domain.
In comparison, bad designs in an OO language may appear "correct" or even "elegant" on the surface, simply because the glue layers are *meant* to hide the details; adding a pretty "Gang of Four" veneer on top does not make it right.
Which, IMO, is very good. The OP can flag replies as "Correct Answer" and "Assisted Answer," allowing the experts to tally a total score. You can then filter on expertise. Tektips.com does the same thing.
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Get up at 8:00am on a Saturday morning of a long weekend and drive around the suburbs looking for campers, minivans, station-wagons being loaded with family and luggage. Or just hit up the beachhouses and cottages in the off-season and steal their liquor and BBQs.
Please. Wash your hands after. We don't need those Vista cooties infecting everything else when you get back.
where the two dudes in the Oreo jumpsuits are locked in an eternal struggle -- why is it that security vs. hackers struggle should be any different? Do security innovators really think that they're going to invent the "unbreakable" technology?
Microsoft Office. No, Open Office doesn't cut it -- every law office I support has applications (see "mission critical business applications") that require Word; every small business with copy of Office has some sort of Excel or Access database who's macros or forms are "irreplacable" and do not work with an alternative.
Internet Explorer, for all of those portals that use ActiveX components.
Photoshop. GIMP? err... no.
I'm sure there are thousands of mothers and grandmothers happily plinking away in Thunderbird on Kubuntu, SUSE, whatever right now, but that's just not the case for people who have no alternative, and cannot switch which is exactly my original point and is precisely the foundation of Microsoft's business strategy.
I smell a zealot with a fistful of mod points... why is this flamebait? I think the parent brings up a valid point here.
It's Debian... they found an old DAT tape from three years ago, restored it, and realised that nothing's changed in the source tree. *ducks*
My only problem with the "convention or configuration" mantra is the lack of transparency: unless you *know* that RoR does all this automagic pluralization and convention "guesswork" you're destined to bang your head off the corner of the desk trying to figure out how it works. I'm thinking in 2-3 years time and somebody needs to maintain a RoR app who might be familiar with language xyz and abc, but not Ruby. Good luck trying to step through the code and figuring out how it works without investing some serious time in understanding the language and framework intimately. No, I'm not advocating reems of XML config files ala J2EE frameworks, but I see nothing wrong with a simple conf file for most projects.
is slowly curling into a glowing fist, powered by an evil far greater than...
Once again, Microsoft leaves the heavy lifting to others. What a crock. What exactly is Microsoft supposed to do, reverse-engineer everyone's applications for them so it will run under Vista? I'm no Windows programmer, but clearly the partners are going to have to make changes if their software is incompatible with Vista.
You're absolutely right. It's extremely if not impossible to compare something as complex and configurable as a "portal" (which is just as complicated to define, mind you) in a generic "performance analysis". A better comparison would've been a case study whereas objectives for the portal were defined ("we wanted to make an HR portal for a company of 200 employees...") and measured, including some "scientific" and anecdotal performance statistics ("It took Nancy on average 6 minutes to upload and describe each new HR form..."). Sure, it wouldn't be perfect, but at least it would put the testing into context, and give us some metrics that people can actually use, even if only to contribute to the decision-making process.
This is nonsense. Pissing off consumers is not the answer: they should be looking at determining how many ads were *not* fast-forwarded and only paying the content/service providers for those spots, much like how click-thrus and page impressions work on teh Interweb.
Informative? Please read at least some of the comments you're citing before spreading the FUD.
One of the merits of PHP (and most scripting/dynamic languages for that matter) is it's transparency: it's easier to spot bad design or sloppy code because all of the code actually does something in relation to the given problem domain.
In comparison, bad designs in an OO language may appear "correct" or even "elegant" on the surface, simply because the glue layers are *meant* to hide the details; adding a pretty "Gang of Four" veneer on top does not make it right.
Which, IMO, is very good. The OP can flag replies as "Correct Answer" and "Assisted Answer," allowing the experts to tally a total score. You can then filter on expertise. Tektips.com does the same thing.
Sweet Lord baby jesus I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Thanks man.